How to correct for a drifting baseline?

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Lizan
Lizan on 17 Mar 2015
Answered: Star Strider on 17 Mar 2015
How can I correct for a drfiting signal that is slowly declining, (x,y) values?

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Star Strider
Star Strider on 17 Mar 2015
There are several ways, depending on whether the baseline drift is linear or nonlinear. I would start with the detrend function, and if that didn’t give an acceptable result, then consider a low-order polynomial using polyfit and polyval.
There are several other ways to deal with it, including using a bandpass (or highpass) digital filter with a very low low-frequency cutoff. (If possible, I prefer the filter because it gives me more control over the frequency content of my filtered signal. If you want to design a filter, do an fft of your signal first, so that you can determine where best to define your cutoff frequencies.)

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